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Folksemantic www.folksemantic.com Browse and search over 110,000 Open Education Resources (OERs). “This is an open educational resource recommender. There’s also a website widget and a Firefox extension. The system basically provides access to NSDL resources, but also Johns Hopkins, MERLOT and MIT-OCW resources. OER Recommender now has real-time analysis of OER resources related to other web pages (eg. Amazon). It’s all free and open source, and the code is available”–Stephen Downes. It also allows you to meet people with whom you can find, discuss, remix, and develop learning resources.
OER Grapevine www.oergrapevine.org/OER_projects OER Grapevine’s mission is to promote discussion and cooperation among projects relating to open educational resources (OER). The site was created in 2006 Rob Lucas, and includes an email list and this wiki. This wiki will be used to keep a list and short descriptions of OER projects.
Open Clip Art Library www.openclipart.org This project aims to create an archive of user contributed clip art that can be freely used.
Open Everything http://openeverything.wik.is Open Everything is a global conversation about the art, science and spirit of ‘open’. It gathers people using openness to create and improve software, education, media, philanthropy, architecture, neighbourhoods, workplaces and the society we live in: everything. It’s about thinking, doing and being open.
Open Font Library http://openfontlibrary.org The goal of the Open Font Library project is to collect free software fonts–those that

may be used, changed and shared freely.

Open Source Open Courseware Prototype System (OOPS) www.myoops.org Opensource Opencourseware Prototype System (OOPS) supports a volunteer effort in widening access to world-class knowledge for the Chinese-speaking population around the globe. The mission of OOPS is threefold: To break down language barriers through adding translation and captioning; To disseminate OER concept and stimulate use through speech, media coverage, and community building. To encourage original Chinese contributions of OER through partnership and consultation.

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